Matthew 6:23 - Tree of Life Version

²³ But if your eye is bad, your body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very light in you [your conscience] is darkened, how dense is that darkness!

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness!

Common English Bible

²³ But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how terrible that darkness will be!

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ But if your eye has been corrupted, your entire body will be darkened. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great will that darkness be!

Matthew 6:23 Cross References

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see one wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than him.

Isaiah 8:20

To Torah and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no light.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish. They do not know Me. They are senseless children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they do not know.”

Matthew 20:15

Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’

Matthew 6:22

“The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore if your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.

Mark 7:22

adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustfulness, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

Luke 11:34

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light. But when it is sick, your body is full of darkness.

Luke 8:10

Then Yeshua said to them, “To you has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others it is given in parables, in order that ‘Seeing, they may not see, and hearing, they may not understand.’

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

1 Corinthians 2:14

Now a natural man does not accept the things of the Ruach Elohim, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Ephesians 4:18

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance in them due to the hardness of their heart.

Ephesians 5:8

For once you were darkness, but now in union with the Lord you are light. Walk as children of light

1 John 2:11

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has made his eyes blind.